Political-Knowledge Regimes: Building a New Concept from Selected Policy-Change Events in the Tabaré Vázquez Administration (Uruguay, 2005–2009)

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Garcé
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Change Events ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Use Of Research

AbstractIn recent years authors have paid increasing attention to the study of contextual factors that shape the use of research into a country’s public policies. One of the most significant recent contributions to this body of literature is Campbell and Pedersen’s concept of Knowledge Regimes, which focuses on the central characteristics of the relevant social research in a given country. This article is a critique of this concept based on the study of three key policy-change events during the Tabaré Vázquez administration in Uruguay. In order to explain the dynamics of social research it is not merely enough to understand the main features of the supply side; it is also necessary to study the demand. This critical perspective has led to the construction of a new concept.

scholarly journals On storiation and what is washed ashore: The Anthropocene as big kahuna

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110174
Author(s):  
Elena Burgos Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Critical Perspective

This commentary begins by outlining current debates on the notion of the Anthropocene from a critical perspective. Subsequently, it will discuss how Pugh and Chandler (2021) directly address such a problematic and how their work contributes to pluralising contemporary academic debates on the Anthropocene. Their previous academic engagements are no stranger to questions of epistemic discrimination in the broad fields of geography, geopolitics, island studies, and social research, and, more concretely, mainstreamed anthropological thinking. This commentary will therefore focus on their call for storiation and its relevance for contemporary debates seeking more ethical, localised, fluid, and coherent approaches to environmental degradation, environmental history, island identity, geopolitics of climate change, and indigeneity. From all the shapes storiation can take, this commentary focuses on indigenous storiation as embodiment.

The Limits of Demand-Side Explanations

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Alasdair R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Veto Players ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Eu Policies

This chapter presents the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of all twenty-three EU policies that were successfully challenged before the WTO with reasonable periods to comply expiring before the end of 2019 and for which policy change was necessary for compliance. The chapter discusses how the conditions associated with compliance in the literature—the power of the complainant, the nature of the policy, and the number of veto players—are operationalized. The QCA finds that none of the conditions were necessary for compliance. It does, however, suggest (in line with expectations) that trade policy was sufficient for prompt and sufficient policy change. Contrary to expectations, however, the QCA strongly suggests that the power of the complainant was not associated with policy change. The analysis also found no association between the number of veto players and policy change. The QCA, therefore, contradicts the demand-side explanation of compliance and is consistent with the supply-side explanation. The chapter explores why the power of the complainant is not associated with policy change. It also contextualizes and justifies the case studies.

Russian import substitution will struggle

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Import Substitution ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
State Control ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Key Policy

Subject Russia import substitution. Significance The Kremlin proclaimed last year that replacing imports with domestic production was to be a key policy objective in the face of Western sanctions. However, the newly-created Russian government Commission on Import-Substitution held its first meeting only on August 11. Just how the commission will promote import-substitution remains unclear but the risk of a significant increase in state micro-management of industry is elevated. Impacts Import-substitution provides, in principle, a supply-side boost to the Russian economy. It reduces competition for established Russian firms when potential new Russian businesses face barriers to market entry. Incentives for efficiency will be reduced. Implementation of import-substitution policies requires increased state monitoring and micro-intervention. In a hyper-patriotically charged political atmosphere, ideas for a radical increase in state control of the economy may gain more traction.

scholarly journals Capitalism as the Global Social Order: A Critical Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Anna Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Suggested Model ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Global System ◽  
The One

The article studies the concept of the global social order as a subject of social research. The author starts with pointing at the changes in the structure and the character of the today's global social order (acceleration of exchanges and flows, gradual disappearing of a single hegemony, multipolarity) and claims that it is exactly capitalism that becomes a foundation for multipolar but yet unequal constitution of the global order. The article proposes to deal with the global social order as an example of a global subject – alternative to world system or global system – which can be placed in focus of social research. Also, the paper offers a definition to the notions of social order and global social order. Then the author provides several possible classification of the approaches to the study of the global social order, and then moves on to pointing out their mutual positions. The paper considers capitalism as a special form of global social order and suggests to analyze imperialism and neocolonialism as, on the one hand, the products of this order, and on the other hand, as instruments for its legitimation and hegemony. In the further research the suggested model can be used, first, for the improvements in the study of sociology's global subject, and, second, for deepening the knowledge about the process of (re)production of global social order.

International public opinion surveys and public policy in Southern European democracies

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sebastián Fernández-Prados ◽  
Cristina Cuenca-Piqueras ◽  
María José González-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
International Social

AbstractThis article aims to analyse the presence of and relationship between the most relevant comparative social research thorough international surveys and public policies reflected in the different official bulletins or gazettes of the countries of southern Europe, specifically Spain, Portugal and Italy. Following a consideration of the process of globalisation of research through surveys, four surveys were selected (Eurobarometer, World Values Survey, International Social Survey Programme, European Social Survey). The complex relationships between public opinion and public policy were also addressed. Finally, it is concluded that the most prominent international surveys have little or no presence in public policies in the countries analysed.

The Assessment of Social Research: Guidelines for the Use of Research in Social Work and Social Science.

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Robert E. Kennedy ◽  
Tony Tripodi ◽  
Phillip Fellin ◽  
Henry J. Meyer ◽  
Phillip Fellin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Use Of Research

Europeanization Compared: The Shrinking Core and the Decline of ‘Soft’ Power

2003 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Shrinking Core ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Domestic Reform

This concluding chapter summarizes the empirical findings of the volume's contributions on the polity, politics, and policy dimensions of Europeanization, with an emphasis on the implications of living with Europe in terms of Germany's power to project its institutional forms and policies; the balance between the enabling and constraining implications of European integration; and domestic contestation about European integration. The overall pattern of Europeanization is characterized by the contrast between progressively Europeanized public policies, a semi-Europeanized polity, and a largely non-Europeanized politics. This finding points to a dual agenda of domestic reform: one that enables Germany to regain its benchmark status in key policy domains – most centrally in economic policy – and one that addresses the apparent unresponsiveness of domestic politics to pressures of Europeanization.

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